The Color of Grace Quotes

“Hey, where are you going?" His voice, confused yet curious, called after me. "Hey. Why didn't your mother name you Maybe, or We'll see, or What's-Your-Number? That way, we could call our first born Absolutely.”
― Linda Kage, The Color of Grace

“I'm never one, distinct color but a dichotomy of dark and bright. The hues follow me, reflecting my mood, displaying every tone and shade I feel. I can breathe in red and exhale blue, or swim in green and dry as a rainbow. It all depends on how I choose to react to every shadow and light beam headed my way.”
― Linda Kage, The Color of Grace

“Ryder: “Well, you’re not the type I want to be my first either.”

Grace:“What?”

Ryder: “You’re the type I want to be my last. You know...the settle down and marry sort. If you’re my first, then I won’t get to—I don’t know—sow any wild oats or anything.”
― Linda Kage, The Color of Grace

“Something about guys showing their soft side always made me feel all sigh-worthy.”
― Linda Kage, The Color of Grace

“We were grown-ups, yet still children, and yet neither, stuck in that space between infancy and adulthood, confusing and murky, where some tried to grow up too fast, others too slow, and the rest of us were wedged in the middle, not sure which way to go.”
― Linda Kage, The Color of Grace

“I was a rule-follower. I obeyed all forms of authority. I had never before encountered a situation where the authority was clearly wrong and I had to stand up for what was right.”
― Linda Kage, The Color of Grace

“You’re a teenage girl, sweetheart. Growing and changing every day. As you’re trying to find out who you are and what you want to be, you have to experiment and try different things, alter clothes, friends, personalities. I don’t think anyone so young can truly be one color just yet. And you’re my only student who’s realized that.”
― Linda Kage, The Color of Grace

“His warmth enveloped me until I empathized with the glove, knowing I had also just found my way home again after being lost in a cold, miserable winter.”
― Linda Kage, The Color of Grace

“Don’t be the glove in the snow. Fight for what you know is right. Be the coat. You’re not lost and alone on this.”
― Linda Kage, The Color of Grace

“Well…there’s only one glove. Right away, I wonder, where’s the other glove? How did it become separated from its mate? Does it feel lost and confused without its other half? It looks lonely. Cold. Like an outsider that has no one to turn to, nowhere to go. And the stark contrast of the white snow against the bright colors of the glove makes the lines crisp and clear. It makes that feeling of alienated loneliness crisp and clear. The purity of the snow gives the purity of the glove’s solitude a stronger effect.”
― Linda Kage, The Color of Grace

“Of all the people in the crowded six hundred fifty-capacity gymnasium, I was the one to hit his radar. I had no idea how to deal with the attention. So, I pretty much functioned in freak mode.”
― Linda Kage, The Color of Grace

“A girl didn't live through sixteen years of life without any boy ever asking her out to suddenly having two best friends fighting over her.”
― Linda Kage, The Color of Grace

“Why would you reject me? Why did you? What did I do that turned you off so much?”
― Linda Kage, The Color of Grace